Mar 16, 2026, 03:19 PM ETEmma Raducanu has withdrawn from the Miami Open.\u00a0Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Emma Raducanu<\/a> has withdrawn from the Miami Open due to illness.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old British No.1 had received a bye into the second round of the tournament, which begins on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Raducanu is still recovering from post viral symptoms she picked up in the Middle East last month.<\/p>\n The 2021 US Open champion competed at Indian Wells earlier this month — suffering a 6-1, 6-1 third-round defeat to Amanda Anisimova<\/a>.<\/p>\n Speaking after that 52-minute loss, Raducanu admitted she could not summon the power to compete with the two-time grand slam finalist.<\/p>\n She repeatedly declined to chase down drop shots and struggled to put her opponent under any pressure with her return of serve.<\/p>\n – Alex Eala: The 20-year-old phenom has taken the tennis world by storm<\/a><\/p>\n Raducanu cut ties with her latest coach Francisco Roig in January and has been working on an ad-hoc basis with Mark Petchey in a bid to rediscover top form.<\/p>\n Seeded 24th, she could have faced compatriot Sonay Kartal<\/a> — who begins against American Peyton Stearns<\/a> — in the round of 64 in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 16, 2026, 03:19 PM ETEmma Raducanu has withdrawn from the Miami Open.\u00a0Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images Emma Raducanu has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-528141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}